Category: Interview
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Xavier Cha: ‘I’m attracted to manipulating the viewer’s sense of logic, time and perception’
The multimedia artist talks about exploring the physical and psychological relationships between the human body and technology, and why the apparatus and artifice of any human pursuit in contemporary life is of interest to her
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Chelsea Knight: ‘We are all outsiders and insiders’
The artist talks about working at the threshold between video and performance, her interest in language and ethics, and what she sees as her responsibility in her work
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The Collective: ‘You grieve for works of art when you don’t have them’
Paul and Midge Tanner, two of the founding members of The Collective, explain how and why they came to set up this collaborative art collectors’ organization
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Bill Viola: ‘I was always interested in the inner life of the world around me’
Dealing with themes of life and death, human consciousness and emotional expression, the artist’s video art speaks to audiences across the globe. Here, he discusses his current exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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Zhan Wang – studio tour
The Beijing-based artist showed Studio International around his studio
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Zhan Wang: ‘I have been continually influenced by Michelangelo, Rodin and traditional Chinese sculpture’
The Beijing-based artist is a photographer and video artist, although he is best known for sculpting highly polished stainless steel rocks, a cultural reference to the ‘scholar stones’ loved by the Chinese for their aesthetic appearance
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Grant Clifford: ‘I still feel fear starting a painting’
The artist and psychotherapist discusses the intertwining of his two careers, the importance of loneliness to the creative effort and the fear of facing death
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Ayakamay: ‘I’m a street performer’
Ayakamay is an American-born Japanese artist ‘exploring the interrelationship between photography and performance’
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Bob and Roberta Smith: ‘Put all those rotten politicians under pressure – that’s what we should do’
By bringing politics into art, the artist Patrick Brill, better known as Bob and Roberta Smith, hopes to bring art into politics and to see art education and democracy firmly on the agenda both in London’s forthcoming mayoral elections and…
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GR Iranna: ‘I treat all forms that I create with equal compassion – whether it is a tree or a carpet’
As he prepares for a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bangalore, the artist explains that, despite a move towards more abstract works, the human element in his painting and sculptures is still implicit
